An Online Integrated Fingerprint Image System

Ching-Yu Huang, Limin Liu, and Yui-Liang Chen

Abstract—Fingerprint analysis is one of the most
commonly-used biometrics technologies, primarily used in
forensic science to identify people. Due to various reasons, most
fingerprint related studies are conducted in an isolated
environment which makes it hard for researchers to collaborate
across institutes. Web-based client/server applications have
become an important component for international
collaboration because such an application allows users from
different locations to execute the same program on the same
data. Such systems can be quickly developed and are easy to use.
In this paper, a 3-tier integrated online fingerprint system was
developed to manage and process fingerprint images in
real-time. This system allows users all over the world to access
the public NIST-14 fingerprint dataset and collaborate with
other researchers to conduct the research task. The front-end of
the system is an advanced web-based interface that allows users
to view fingerprint images in different resolution, singular
points, enter, and update the location of singular points. This
system can also preserve the entered information in the
back-end database.